Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Ark. GOP cult

Arkansas's cultish Republican legislators are in the news, amusingly, on The Arkansas Project. It seems they don't like their cult being referred to as a cult. So they are issuing news releases proclaiming, "We are not a cult." Thus reinforcing the message.

So let me get this straight...it's okay to compare the President to Hitler or Stalin, healthcare reform to the holocaust, and Michelle Obama to a gorilla. But suggest that Republicans are down in a cave chanting "Mola-Rahm! Sula-Rahm!" or whatever and these big pansies go crying home to mommy! I love it! For all their talk about "Surrendercrats" or other such nonsense, or all the chest beating over guns and the death penalty, one little off handed comment reveals the Republican party to be a bunch of thumb sucking, bed wetting sissies!

M.L. King Day: The open lines and a roundup of headlines and comment.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has made several public appearances today as part of the observance of King Day and his remarks have included lauding the state's 2017 action (and his own) in ending the dual observance of King's birthday with that of a man who fought to preserve slavery, Robert E. Lee. I have one brief observation on his remarks:

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